Introduction: Republican theory and Republican constitutionalism -- Part I Republican freedom -- 1. Popular sovereignty, political freedom and democratic control -- 2. Constitutional rights and freedom as non-domination -- Part II Republican institutions -- 3. Political constitutionalism and executive power -- 4. Judicial power and popular control -- 5. Republican perspectives on constitutional interpretation -- Part III Republican society -- 6. Education and civic virtue -- 7. Church and state in the pluralist republic -- Index
Summary
Recent years have witnessed a revived interest in civic republicanism in Ireland, in tandem with a growing consciousness of republican ideas across the English-speaking world. Yet while republicanism is posited as a catch-all public philosophy and as a framework for political reform in Ireland and elsewhere, its content remains highly ambiguous and contested. Its implications for constitutional structure and constitutional theory are the subject of wide debate in both legal and political thought. In this book, Eoin Daly and Tom Hickey consider republican themes in the Irish constitutional tradition
